Courses
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Projective Representation in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Cameron Wu
Historically, certain kinds of reciprocity between geometry and architecture have been used to bring about rational causes and practical means of formal innovation. Today, the…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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MArch II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MArch II program.This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature.
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2009. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2009. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The atomic bomb, spring break, existentialism, jet travel, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, the transistor radio, abstract expressionism, LSD, the United Nations, ISO containers,…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces the primarily textual material that has constituted architectural discourse from the 1960s to the present, including such topics as representation, realism, and event-structure in…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Medieval Studies 107. Authority and Invention: Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250. Catalog Number: 9420 (FAS); GSD Catalogue Number 4358 Christine Smith (Design School)…
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Modern Architecture and National Identity: Ottoman/Turkish Case in Global Context
Focusing on the specific experience of Ottoman Empire/ modern Turkey in the last two centuries, yet discussing this experience within a broader trans-national and comparative…
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The Shapes of Utopia
you speak of that city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only, for I do not think there is such…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
This module introduces students to fundamental properties and behaviors of buildings and other structures. Principles of design and construction are discussed in a comprehensive manner…
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Energy, Technology and Building
This is a required two credit course for all MArch I students that is closely linked to the GSD\’s new cross-departmental course 6212: Sustainability for…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered first, followed…
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Building Technology
Prerequisites: GSD 6202, GSD 6203, and GSD 6205; or equivalent.As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will establish basic environmental literacy for all the departments at the school. A series of lecturers will address key issues for planners…
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Day-Lighting Buildings
The primary focus of this course will be the study of lighting in an architectural context. The course will stress the integration of electric and…
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Managing the Design Project
Lecture course for 4 credits covering the management of projects. Pedagogical objectives include introduction to project management and leadership, project start up, owner/client relationships, project…
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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This course examines the real estate design and development process, from the first idea and the original conceptual sketch to the creation of building and…
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Leading the Design Firm
Andreas Georgoulias, Richard Jennings, Brian Kenet
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…